The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-05
SOUTHERN eL.EANINas.

Laurens, s. c., of the killing of Bishops
last July.
At trial at the Clay County lGa.)
Court; the ether day; two witnesses were
put open the stand who did not know who
made them, had never heard of Heaven or
hell, and did not know whether lie was
right or WRONG.
Yellow fever lies may be counted on uh=
ell the middle of September: Memphis has
just knocked lie No. / on the head. Yellow
fever never entered the Mississippi valley
except via New Orleans, and the latter city
is as free form that tnalady this year as
Quebec.
South Carolina has effected a sale of
10000 acres of pasture land in Berkley
County to a stock raising company Of
Charleston men. Some Northern capital
lists have bought a tract of 10000 acres in
the same part of the State at one dollar
per acre, and are Negotiating for the ptiF-
chase Of $4,000 acres more at the same price:
The timber on these lands is worth at least
ten dollars per acre. A company is to be
organized and large saw and planning mills
erected
| Miss Theresa wall committed suicide a
few days ago by jumping in the well at
the residence of Mr.. n, @. Parker, iii Mon-
roe County, Tenn. She belonged to one of
the first families in the county, and in a
letter left in her room explained that the
cause of her rash act was disappointment
in love.
| The soap and candle factory of Fabei &
Sons at L ouisville, KY, was burned few
i days ago; Loss, S27 900; insured:
The officials of Shreveport, La, are tack
! ling knotty questionable equalization of
/ taxation on property.
! The jury in the case of John L. Fits and
! Richard Fits, at Owensboro, KY, for the
/ the murder of the four-year- child of
| Alex. johnson, after being out eighteen
hours, returned verdict of not guilty.
A break in the ammonia coil in the salt
| tank the Shreveport tLa.) ice factory,
caused almost an ice famine in that place
recently. A demand was made on the
northern ice companies, but they could not
suffice, with the accent on the ice.
! A fire at Georgetown, KY, few days
! since, destroyed seven buildings in the
/ principal business block of town, including
! the office of the Times newspaper. Total
! loss estimated at $4,000,
/ A freight train containing seventeen
! thousand watermelons, ''fresh and fine,
Just from the vine,' left Valdosta, Ca, a
few days since and reached Boston after
making the run of 1900 miles in seventy
five hours. The melons were in good con-
dition.
/ Georgia has prohibition in 115 of hef 137
counties, and claims to be in better ten1-
peraHce standing than either Maine or
Kansas.
c. J. Litel, Braethitt County CKy.)
lumber merchant, was arrested a few
nights ago at the instance of Marion Chill
ders, an Indiana contractor, who charges
that Litel made away with 81 800 worth of
county bonds that he gave him to sell.
The Glen bill, recently introduced in the
Georgia Legislature, providing for sepa-
rate white and colored schools and for a
sharp drawing of the color line in other
public matters, has created intense indig-
nation among the negroes of the State,
who are making strenuous efforts to secure
its defeat,
The Alabama Legislature has passed a
law disqualifying for service after August
/, prOx., as locomotive engineer, fireman,
train conductor, brakeman, station agent,
hagman, gate-tender, or signal man, all
persons affected with color blindness or
loss of visual power.
John Pickett, a moonshiner, shot and
killed his wife few nights ago Wal
den's Ridge, fifteen miles from Chatta-
nOoga, Tenn, because she refused to ac-
company him to his still. The murderer
escaped. Officers were securing the coun-
try for him.
The seventh annual Mississippi State
Prohibition convention assembled at Jack
j. son last week. Thirty-one counties were
represented by regular delegates and
several by Proxies-about forty in all. The
meeting was composed of representative
men. Bishop Galloway of the Methodist
Church was the presiding officer.
Work on the Alabama, Florida & At
: lanttc road has begun, and the contractors
are pushing it forward vigorously. Over
$50 hands are now at Sorrento, Orange
County, engaged in cleaning the right of
way and grading. Double that number
will soon be employed. A portion of the
southern division will be in operS0ion this
winter.
/ A st. Louis paper Is responsible for the
statement that an agent of the Southern
| Methodist Church, just returned from a
| trip through Southeastern Kentucky re
! ports that out of seven county seats visit
ed, five have not now and never had a
church building of any kind.
Cora Miner, aged eighteen, daughter of
Fl. G.. Miner, residing at Oradell, near
Mount Pleasant, La, died a few nights ago
from the effect of a dose of strychnine
taken with suicidal intent. She had been
sick for some time, which is the only cause
known. 1t was not known that she had
taken poison until she sent for the doctor
herself, and begged him to give her an
emetic, as she has taken strychnine. She
then wished to live, but it was too late.
Policeman Douglass, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, shot at his partner, Policeman Dun
can, few days ago while standing on the
street. There was no cause for the shoot
ing. The bullet missed Duncan, but
Douglass was standing so close when he
fred the shot that Duncan's face was bad
ly burned with powder, and one grain Of
powder was imbedded in his right ey,,-
ball, which may destroy the sight. Doug
lass was drunk when he fred the shot.
a company has been made up at Bir
mingham, Ala, and $4,000 of local capital
pledged, to begin work on such plant as
will make a satisfactory test of the Hen.
dersOn steel-making improvements, Mr..
Henderson having been there several weeks
and explained his process thoroughly.
There are no iron-massers in the project,
but several chemists and metallurgists,
who are satisfied of the efficiency of the
process applied to the ores of that district.
Mr.. Henderson says the company ought to
make steel in the next four months.
The Louisiana cane crop is good.
The corner stone Of st. Paul's Catholic
Church at Owensboro, Ky, which is to cost
$4,000, was laid few days since with inn
posing ceremonies by Bishop McClosky, of
Louisville, assisted by very Rev. George
McClosky, of Preston Park Theological
Seminary, and the priests of the diocese.
Virginia Hudson, aged seven years, a
negro child, was jailed at Granville, S. c.,
a few days ago, for murder. She Killed a
child one year old and then threw the body
in a well. She struck her victim over the
head with board until it was dead. This
is the youngest murderess e.er known in
that section. Her imprisonment is merely
q matter of form.
Figs measuring nine and One-half inches
in circumference are grown in Florida
Mr.. Henry s. Farrar, Of the Fulton Fish
cries, near Jacksonville, Fla, and Captain
Yates, have leased Calypso Island, on the
St. Johns river, and viii erect Immediately
fertiIizing factory. A company has been
formed and all necessary preliminaries
arranged. They win manufacture the fer
tilizer from fish